help...is it sensible? or should i follow my dreams?

Question

ever since i can remember i have always enjoyed being on stage acting but i am also very good at science & related subjects however i find no interest in it whatsoever, i am meant to start a pharmacy degree nxt sept...my question is should i follow my dreams and do the sensible thing every1 seem to say and do pharmacy since it will provide a more secure future than acting? but when it goes wrong every1 will say i told you so!! HELP

Answer 1

what you need to do (lots of peeps to this) is do the pharmacy thing and in the mean time take some auditions there is no reason y you cant do that absalutely no reason but you gota be secure . think of the pharmacy job as a safety net so if you dont make it in the show bizz then you got soming to fall back on. also dont listen to the peeps that say " your only here once so go for it all " exactly your only here once but imagine you done get a degree and then you faill on acting then you hhave nothing and you will be in some seriouse trouble . its fine to go wid yo dream just dont abandon everything else if it doesnt work out

Answer 2

It would depend how good you are at acting because it is a very difficult field to break into and you have to be good. Of my six friends with degrees in Drama only one of them managed to break into it and make their living from acting all the others do something else. I would say that if you really want to do drama do a combined honors course (Drama and English Literature for example) because then you can always go into teaching or lecturing. You could do your pharmacy course and then do some extras work to see if you like the industry. Of course what I did had no purpose at all at university and I loved it, but when I went there werent tuition fees. Maybe you just dont want to be a pharmacist. What about an arts therapist that would be art and science.

Answer 3

Personally I would do the pharmacy degree as yes that is going to give you a good job and maybe do drama as a hobby part time. Yu could do work as an extra etc.. Sorry but it is extremely hard to break into an acting career. You'll only be 21 when your course is finished so do it after that but get your degree first as its something to fall back on. Trust me I have a friend who is 28 and has been living in London since age 18 and shes pretty and talented and she goes to drama class and theatre etc and works as a waitress part time to just cover her rent and she is NEVER gonna make it - I just think get a life and another career but she is living that dream and wasting her life paying large sums of rent and waiting tables hoping for this big beak that is never gonna happen.

Answer 4

You seem to be fairly level headed about it all and I'm sure you'll make a good choice either way.

My take on it is that it's always better to have a "fallback" position, so go to university to get your degree. They'll have a drama / acting society there, so scope around at freshers week. If there isn't one, just join one of the non-Uni Am-Dram clubs in the area. Sure, you won't have much time when studying for a pharmacy degree, but at least you'll be keeping the tinder burning on that dream of yours. Do the sensible thing, but KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE.

Best of luck.

Answer 5

Do both....go to school, become a pharmacist, dabble in acting, join a group at your school, do community theater. It takes a short few years of school to obtain a degree that will insure you a comfortable income. If after you are done with school you still have the acting bug, maybe get a very part time job working in a pharmacy and put more energy into acting. Then if it doesn't work out, you can fall back.

Answer 6

With any job whether it is your dream or not you should always look at the market and think logically. The "acting" market is completely flooded and always will be, so unless you have been trained at some fancy arts school or have some connections in the film and stage industry maybe you should stick to a solid education and try to gain some acting experiance first. That way if it happens it happens, and you still have a great to career to fall back on.

Answer 7

Follow your heart. Life's too short. Its better to have to have tried and lost, then to never have tried at all. Take that risk. If it doesn't work, oh well, the pharmacy will still be there. Maybe devote a year to trying to make it work, and if your no where close to getting jobs to pay the bills then go back home and do that pharmacy thing. At least you tried.

Answer 8

well i think that if you're not interested in something then you're not gonna stick to it. it's way better to try something you love first and if it doesn't work out then you can always do the science thing.
i did acting at college, it didn't work out, i wasn't that talented but i don't regret it at all, i had 2 great years doing something fun and even though i'm not an actor now i still learnt a lot and would do it all again if i could go back.
i had people say 'i told you so' but so what? there's more to life than fulfilling other's expectations. they can say they told me so but they can't take away the fun i had and the friends i made.

Answer 9

If you have a talent for stage acting, have confidence, have thick skin and you heart is really in it, then I say go for it and I'll wish you luck!

You only live once! Do what you enjoy! I would rather be skint and happy than rich and bored.

I had a similar problem myself when I was younger, unfortunately, I went the safe boring route and I regret it every single day.

So what if you did never made it! At least you can say that you tried and tried and have no regrets.

Answer 10

Getting your PharmD is a huge undertaking. But, if you do have the drive, perhps yu can do both. Try going to school AND trying out for parts in local plays, etc. If you get a job acting, you can always leave pharmacy school. If you decide to go back later on in life, a lot of schools will allow you to get credit for the year(s) that you have already completed...as long as it hasn't been too long.